Mercurial > hg > release > icedtea6-1.7
changeset 1942:4b9a6c6f0b30
Update NEWS for 1.7.4.
2010-07-21 Andrew John Hughes <ahughes@redhat.com>
* NEWS: Updated for 1.7.4.
| author | Andrew John Hughes <ahughes@redhat.com> |
|---|---|
| date | Wed, 21 Jul 2010 17:27:47 +0100 |
| parents | ce09ca575fdb |
| children | 40a2a5a54fce |
| files | ChangeLog NEWS THANKYOU |
| diffstat | 3 files changed, 44 insertions(+), 3 deletions(-) [+] |
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--- a/ChangeLog Tue Jul 20 16:49:21 2010 -0400 +++ b/ChangeLog Wed Jul 21 17:27:47 2010 +0100 @@ -1,7 +1,11 @@ +2010-07-21 Andrew John Hughes <ahughes@redhat.com> + + * NEWS: Updated for 1.7.4. + 2010-07-20 Man Lung Wong <mwong@redhat.com> * netx/net/sourceforge/jnlp/SecurityDesc.java: - Add permission to read javawebstart.version property as part of + Add permission to read javawebstart.version property as part of sandbox permission. * netx/net/sourceforge/jnlp/runtime/JNLPRuntime.java (initialize): Set the javawebstart.version property as part of System property
--- a/NEWS Tue Jul 20 16:49:21 2010 -0400 +++ b/NEWS Wed Jul 21 17:27:47 2010 +0100 @@ -1,13 +1,49 @@ New in release 1.7.4 (2010-XX-XX): * Backport --with-tzdata-dir support from IcedTea6 1.8 to ensure - that external timezone data works again. + that external timezone data works again. +* Restore icedtea-override-metacity.patch to allow full screen apps and + other expected behavioral improvements. +* S6678385, RH551835: Fixes JVM crashes when window is resized. * Make the new plugin the default. This is now the main supported plugin. Use --disable-npplugin to use the old one. -* Updates to the new plugin: +* New plugin: - Added support for JSObject.finalize() - Liveconnect message processing design changes. - Message protocol overhaul to fix race conditions + - PR166: Create FIFO pies in temp dir instead of ~/.icedteaplugin + - Profiled memory usage and implemented proper cleanup for C++ side. + - Update debug output string and function/structure names to + change 'GCJ' references to ITNP/IcedTea NP Plugin + - PR461: plugin working for NSS enabled builds with firefox including a private NSS copy + - Removed unncessary debug and trace output + - PR474: Patch from Paulo Cesar Pereira de Andrade, incrementing malloc size to account for NULL terminator. + - RH524387: javax.net.ssl.SSLKeyException: RSA premaster secret error + - Set context classloader for all threads in an applet's threadgroup + - PR436: Close all applet threads on exit + - PR480: NPPlugin with NoScript extension. + - PR488: Question mark changing into underscore in URL. + - RH592553: Fix bug causing 100% CPU usage. + - Don't generate a random pointer from a pthread_t in the debug output. + - Add ForbiddenTargetException for legacy support. + - Use variadic macro for plugin debug message printing. + - Don't link the plugin with libxul libraries. + - Fix race conditions in plugin initialization code that were causing hangs. + - RH506730: BankID (Norwegian common online banking authentication system) applet fails to load. + - Fix policy evaluation to match the proprietary JDK. + - PR491: pass java_{code,codebase,archive} parameters to Java. + - Adds javawebstart.version property and give user permission to read that property. +* NetX: + - Make path sanitization consistent; use a blacklisting approach. + - Make the SingleInstanceServer thread a daemon thread. + - Handle JNLP files which use native libraries but do not indicate it + - Allow JNLP classloaders to share native libraries + - Added encoding support +* PulseAudio provider: + - Eliminate spurious exception throwing. +* SystemTap support: + - PR476: Enable building SystemTap support on GCC 4.5. + - Fix HotSpot tapset object_alloc size variable. New in release 1.7.3 (2010-03-31):